KOBE (HYOGO)
TAYLOR, GEORGE Y., Commission Agent
THOMAS & CO., A. A., Tea Merchants-30
F. H. Schluter
THORNICRAFT, T. C., L.R.C.P.ED., M.R.C.S.ED. MILLER, RALPH S., M.D., C.M. ED., Medical
Practitioners
TRAVELLERS' BILLIARD ROOM AND BOWLING
ALLEY-31B
J. Dutronquoy, proprietor
TUSKA, E. H., Merchant-16
E. H. Tuska (Yokohama)
Harry O. Phillips
J. Ritchie
UNION PROTEstant ChurCH
Trustees-Rev. F. L. Atkinson, W. F.
Page, R. Hughes
UPTON, F., Merchant-122
F. Upton
G. H. Whymark P. S. Symes H. L. Phillips
VANTINE & Co., A. A.
M. L. Smead
VIGAN & Co., J. DE, Merchants-23
J. de Vigan (Paris) Ch. de Vigan do.
A. Breton
WALSH, HALL & Co., Merchants—70
John G. Walsh
Arthur (). Gay (Yokohama)
C. P. Hall
Agencies
Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris Yangtsze Insurance Association, Ld.
Warburton, W., Customs, Shipping and
Forwarding Agent-97, Native Bund WEHRMANN, F., Baker-Ikuta-maye, 2
WENTWORTH, W. D., Public Accountant-16
WHYMARK & Co., GEO., Butchers, Bakers,
and Storekeepers, 81, Division Street
Geo. H. Whymark
W. G. Whymark
A. Richardson
N. E. Harris
WILLIAMS, J., Auctioneer and Commission
Agent, Division Street
WINCKLER & Co., Merchants--85
J. Winckler
P. Büller
WITKOWSKI & Co., J., Merchants—32
J. Witkowski (Yokohama)
H. Blum
Ch. Heymann (Paris)
G. Le Roy
WORCH & Co., Merchants-40
A. Worch (Paris)
E. Hagens (Hamburg)
R. Hoeckert
YANNY, GEO., Commission Agent-43
YOKOHAMA ENGINE AND IRON WORKS, LD
Takahama
A. Stewart, manager
W. Oastler, foreman H. Klingen, clerk
NAGASAKI
Nagasaki is a city of great antiquity, and in the early days of European intercourse with the Far East was the most important seat of the foreign trade with Japan. It is admirably situated on the south-western coast of the island of Kiushiu. A melancholy interest attaches to the neighbourhood as the scene of the extinction of Christianity in the empire and the extermination of the professors of that religion in 1637. At the entrance to the harbour lies the celebrated island of Pappenberg, where thousands of Christian martyrs were thrown over the high cliff rather than go through the form of trampling on the cross. Not far from Nagasaki is also the village of Mogi, where 37,000 Christians suffered death in defending themselves against the forces sent to subdue them. When the Christian religion was crushed and the foreigners expelled, to the Dutch alone was extended the privilege of trading with Japan, and they were confined to a small plot of ground at Nagasaki called Deshima. By the treaty of 1858, Nagasaki was one of the ports opened to British trade on the 1st July in the following year.
On entering the harbour of Nagasaki no stranger can fail to be struck with the admirable situation of the town and the beautiful panorama of hilly scenery opened to his view. The harbour is a landlocked inlet deeply indented with small bays, about three miles